Abstract

Ensuring personal privacy in today's computerized-information society seems to be a common goal among the member states of the OECD. In this paper an attempt is made to summarize the discussions at the political and law-making level, both nationally and internationally within the framework of the OECD member countries.

From the concrete outcome of these discussions, i.e., the data protection acts adopted and yet in force, the Austrian situation has been chosen as example.